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SIGECOM
2008
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
Posted prices vs. negotiations: an asymptotic analysis
Full revelation of private values is impractical in many large-scale markets, where posted price mechanisms are a simpler alternative. In this work, we compare the asymptotic beha...
Liad Blumrosen, Thomas Holenstein
UAI
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Bidding under Uncertainty: Theory and Experiments
This paper describes a study of agent bidding strategies, assuming combinatorial valuations for complementary and substitutable goods, in three auction environments: sequential au...
Amy R. Greenwald, Justin A. Boyan
WINE
2005
Springer
131views Economy» more  WINE 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
On the Competitive Ratio of the Random Sampling Auction
We give a simple analysis of the competitive ratio of the random sampling auction from [10]. The random sampling auction was first shown to be worst-case competitive in [9] (with ...
Uriel Feige, Abraham Flaxman, Jason D. Hartline, R...
ECAI
2006
Springer
14 years 2 days ago
Heuristic Bidding Strategies for Multiple Heterogeneous Auctions
Abstract. This paper investigates utility maximising bidding heuristics for agents that participate in multiple heterogeneous auctions, in which the auction format and the starting...
David C. K. Yuen, Andrew Byde, Nicholas R. Jenning...
DA
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
Procurement Auctions for Differentiated Goods
: We consider two mechanisms to procure differentiated goods: the request for quote and an English auction with bidding credits. In the request for quote, each seller submits a pri...
Jason Shachat, J. Todd Swarthout